Celebrity Justice
Suspect Arrested in "Top Chef" Gay Bashing Case

matthew wall, josie smith-walaveNew details have emerged regarding the vicious attack on "Top Chef" contestant Josie Smith-Malave and her friends over Labor Day weekend. Nassau County police department reported that they've arrested Matthew W. Wall, 20, of Oregon, and charged him with second degree robbery and a bias crime. He was arraigned yesterday.

Police report that Wall, along with approximately twelve of his friends, were involved in a confrontation with Smith-Malave and three of her female friends. The altercation escalated when Wall and his posse allegedly began spitting and hitting the four women and making derogatory statements about their sexual orientation.

According to the police report, Wall "forcibly stole a video camera from one of the four, causing her to fall and injure her knee." The investigation is ongoing.

Smith-Malave appeared on the second season of "Top Chef" and was rejected in episode five.

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61. HOMOSEXUALITY IS AN ABOMINABLE SIN. BUT...DID ANYONE NOTICE SHE GOT A LITTLE BUMP ON THE KNEE AND HE WAS THROWN IN JAIL...FOR WHAT? ? ? CALLING HER A LICKER OR SOMETHING JUVENILE? ?
THIN SKIN.
PS: HOMOS C H O O S E to be the way they are, just like an alcoholic makes those choices related to their illness.
IF YOU ARE GOING TO CRITIQUE ANOTHER PERSON'S INTELLIGENCE, IT HELPS IF YOU CAN SPELL "MORON".


Bill, you are a moran. People do not choose to be gay, no more then if they choose to be black. They way you are born is the way you are. But, yet, YOU choose to be stupid! That you can change.

Posted at 3:30PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Bush Lickers

62. The idiots need to be taught a lesson! I agree...let them get a "taste" for prison and see if they ever act like that again!!
And for those saying it is season two and not season 3.......the article says season 2 at the bottom, you dolts!!!

Posted at 3:27PM on Sep 14th 2007 by me

63. His hair looks a bit gay to me. lmao You think he is in the closet? He isn't attractive enough or well groomed enough to be gay, huh?

Posted at 3:31PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Laura

64. If they don't want the pressure keep thier ugly sexual preference to themselves.

Posted at 3:38PM on Sep 14th 2007 by billy

65. So being bias is a crime in Oregon.
The book 1984 must be the Bible in that state.
Unless of course the Bible is banned in Oregon
for being to bias.
Do they have a guide book or does the man behind
the curtain decide what is bias.

Posted at 3:42PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Karl Marx

66. Damn kid look's like a hair farmer. 13 men on 4 woman, that just isn't right no matter what your feelings on lesbian's. I would have loved to have been there when this happened, I would have enjoyed curb stomping those clown's.

Posted at 3:34PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Tim

67. So what..... people are assaulted everyday... 999 out of a 1000 people out there dont care.... The people posting on this msg board make up about .000000000000000000000000000001% of 1% of Americas population... it still doesn't change the fact that you're loud, and just loud mouths....

what about the 60,000 other people out there were assaulted on the same day, but aren't on TV?

Posted at 3:38PM on Sep 14th 2007 by So What

68. I just don't get it. Why are people so threatened by other lifestyles, races and ethnicities? Why can't we all just get along? We all have to face our own version of God when we die, and if you're an atheist, the whole thing doesn't mean a thing anyway. Can't we just get along? It must be horrible walking around filled with anger, hate and fear.

Posted at 3:39PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Lana

69. I find it very interesting that homos all assume that anyone who dislikes them is a "closet" homo. According to this logic, if a black dislikes whites, he must be a "closet" white, and vice versa. Or if a woman dislikes men then I guess she is a "closet" man. this logic is as twisted as the idea that homosexuality is "normal". Whether born gay or acquired or chosen to be gay, it is a mental illness with a multiple number of causes. This does NOT make it OK. Also, for those of you you are not aware of this, the next thing on the agenda of the gay coalition worldwide, according to one of their own websites, is to "normalize pedophilia. Get a grip you sick twisted morons.

Posted at 3:42PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Bill

70. Bush Lickers,
You are right. I did spell moron wrong. I stand corrected, thank-you.
Bush Lickers, YOU are a moron. Feel better now that I spelled it right?

Posted at 3:42PM on Sep 14th 2007 by hello, it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

71. Where did he get the HAIR !! Somebody should have told him the 60s' and 70s' are over !!!
I just hope he learns his lesson in JAIL !!!

Posted at 4:02PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Gary

72. Bill,
People like you scare me. Please, don't reproduce.

Posted at 3:46PM on Sep 14th 2007 by hello, it\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

73. AGAIN MY OPINION IS THE ONLY ON THAT COUNTS. GAYS SHULD AN WILL BURN IN HELL SOONER OR LATER. UNTIL THEN LEAVE THEM ALONE UNLESS THEY PUSH
THEMSELVES ON YOU. I HATE THE WAY THEY ALTER THEIR VOICES TO SOUND
LIKE THE GENDER THEY WISH TO BE JUST LIKE 87% OF THE REST OF THE WORLD.
BUT LEAVE THEM IN THEIR SIN. BUT IF THEY CROSS THE LINE EXTERMINATE
IMMEDIATELY. THEY NEED TO STEP BACK AND SEE THEMSELVES THE WAY THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD SEES THEM. AS FREAKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 3:53PM on Sep 14th 2007 by MR RIGHT

74. Go to your search engine and punch in "normalization of pedohilia". You will be offered a selction of dozens of sites addressing the fact that gays worldwide are not happy just molesting the same sex; they want to be free to molest children as well. Some of them in the United States are even trying to use the first amendment as an excuse. I don't know how freedom of speech and expression translatin into sodomizing children; but them that is the homosexual brain at work again. Whoever it was that said they were scared of people like me; you should be, because people like me are onto your sick plan to turn the world into an amoral flesh festival using defenseless children for your pleasure.

Posted at 3:52PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Bill

75. Gay bashing is an acceptable form of bigotry .
All you wankers claiming that some guy is going to be sodomized in prison are probably the "soap-droppers" yourselves .

"Top Chef" is the worst show ever , after "Runway" .
"Ironman Chef" is much better .

Posted at 3:55PM on Sep 14th 2007 by Alexander Dunetz

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